Dr. Caroline Leaf

And in a plane, you have the pilot and you always have a co-pilot.

And the co-pilot gives the bigger picture, kind of looks into what's going on, keeps a handle on planning, looking present, past, and future.

So there's wisdom in the co-pilot.

Not that there isn't wisdom in the pilot, but the pilot's really experimental.

They are actually doing the action of flying.

And so that's your messy mind.

And that's what we, when you wake up in the morning, till the time you go to sleep, the messy mind is operating.

It's your conscious mind.

So consciousness, when you talk about a stream of consciousness, that is when you're awake.

So you open your eyes till between the time you open your eyes until time you go to sleep, you're experiencing the stream of consciousness and your messy mind is experimenting in that process.

So

we don't know what's coming up we don't we can't control people we can't control events and circumstances so it's very experimental and that's why it's messy but messy is okay because messiness allows us and affords us the opportunity to repair and to grow so if you have a if you do get irritable and snap at someone you can either stay irritable and stay snapping and keep the damage your brain and body are not designed for that or you can respond to your white for love design and your optimism bias and

recognize that as an imbalance recognize the impact it had on you and on the person because it will cause brain damage in both you and the person and you can mind manage that you can self-regulate that you can apologize and you can change your behavior that's mind management that is you using your mind to manage your mind that is the messy mind that experimented and made a mess and then the the messy mind's actually listening to the wise mind the co-pilot and drawing on intelligence

So the ability to correct yourself, the ability that we're having now to have this kind of conversation, we're exploring the deep things of life and we're getting kind of deep.

This is the wise mind, analyzing life.

When you give someone advice and someone comes to you and they ask you a question and you say, you give them and you say, wow, this is like amazing advice.

I wish I could take my own advice.

That's your wise mind.

When you're in a situation and you know what you should do, you don't always do it, but you know what you should, that's your wise mind.

So your wise mind is at the core of your being.